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TIL: The Russian Army began wearing socks in 2013. Before that, soldiers used portyanki (squares of cloth used to wrap feet).

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78GRP TIL the Roman Emperor Fedrick II (1220-1250) kept a Sulphur Crested Cockatoo, a parrot native to Australia and New Guinea.
6EdeZ TIL In 1990 the USSR and PepsiCo made a deal to exchange Pepsi syrup for vodka and a small fleet of Soviet warships including 17 submarines, a frigate, a cruiser and a destroyer. Until PepsiCo sold the ships to Sweden a few days later for scrap, Pepsi was the 6th largest navy in the world
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